Good news Haruhi fans, the first English fan translation of the 10th Haruhi novel has arrived! Ultimatemegax, who has previously translated the bonus booklet released with the 10th novel, has now released his fan translations of both volumes of the Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya. Grab the downloads from his blog. As always, please support the Haruhi series and the hard work of Nagaru Tanigawa by purchasing the official books when they become in your region.
Thanks to ReleasedNinja and Neil for sending in the info. If you …

Kadokawa Shoten has released three Haruhi themed apps called AniPokes for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad for both the US and Japan. The AniPokes use Motion Portrait technology previously used in Haruhi Suzumiya games. AniPokes allows the user to interact with the characters including limited speech recognition with changing facial expressions. The Haruhi AniPoke is free to download at the App Store but the Mikuru and Yuki Apps cost 99 cents or 115 yen. The Apps normally cost $3.99 or 450 yen, but this special …

Kyoto Animation created a cool little desktop accessory program that lets you play around with chibi SOS-dan members right on your computer screen. It comes with wallpapers, a clock, icons, mouse cursors and other fun goodies to ceck out your computer with Haruhi themed tools. And a Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya version is also available. The original program is in Japanese only, but a fan translation was made, check out this blog post  for more info.
Download links:
part1
part2
part3
You will need a program like hjsplit to join the three zip files together …

The new year is coming up fast, so here’s the 2011 Haruhi Suzumiya calendar scans.  This year’s calendar features some nice art using the Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya characters.  I really like these because it explores the scenario where Kyon chooses to stay in the new universe.  To really appreciate it, you have to watch the movie or read the 4th light novel  View the 1200px resolution pics in the thumbnails or download the high res versions through the links. Hotfile, Megaupload

Hi Haruhi fans, don’t know what to listen on your ipods/mp3 players this summer vacation? Well then, we have some treats for you.  Recently, we’ve been sent a lot of news tips and links to Haruhi Suzumiya radio dramas and fan audio book projects, so we thought it’d be cool to throw everything together in a single post and let you decide what to listen to first
First up is an audio book project that we’ve reported on in the past. The Audiobooks of Haruhi Suzumiya is led …

The Adventures of Dr.Koizumi is a fan-made role-playing game. It runs off of RPGMaker VX which you can download for free here. Don’t expect too much though, the game can be completed in about 10 minutes and it seems that Koizumi Itsuki is the only character from the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya which shows up in it. Check it out if you’re curious, plus there’s always more fan-made RPGMaker games out there to try out afterwards.
Thanks to thekoriokami and orichic51 for sending in the news tip. If …